Dr Cormac O'Dea

The Spending Review, to be finalised later this month, will provide detail regarding the large reductions in spending on public services that will be implemented over the next four years. The estimation of the distributional impacts of cuts in spending on public services is substantially more challenging than the estimation of the distributional impact of changes to taxation and the payment of cash benefits. For many reasons analyses of the former should be interpreted very cautiously.

Presentation at the Financial Services Authority, 6th October 2010.

This presentation was given at the 2009 meeting of the National Tax Association in Denver, Colorado, 12-14 November 2009.

This talk was given at a special session, organized by the IMF, at the National Tax Association Annual Meetings in Denver on 12 November 2009.

This talk was given at a Finance seminar at the University of Cambridge on 30 October 2009.

This public economics lecture was delivered at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in October 2009.

This presentation was given at an event on 9 March, which formed part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.

This presentation was given at the IFS Public Economics Lectures on 8th December 2008.